newsanchor

0.1.1

Client for the News API

0packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

62.1%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Buhl YannikFirst published 2019-03-052 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Interface to gather news from the 'News API', based on a multilevel query https://newsapi.org/. A personal API key is required.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("newsanchor", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("correlaid/newsanchor")

Development version from correlaid/newsanchor. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-newsanchor

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-newsanchor

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

62.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,739 · ~10/day · ~289/mo

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20230 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ correlaid/newsanchor

35Stars

5Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

225Commits

17Contributors

225 commits · Last activity 2021-12-21

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/correlaid/newsanchor on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (7)

devtools httr jsonlite tidyr xml2 lubridate askpass

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

dplyr knitr magrittr rmarkdown robotstxt rvest stringr testthat mockery tidytext textdata

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Buhl Yannik

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-05
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 42 KB / 5 files
Download size: 72 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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